Alex Carey

Alex Carey is an Australian activist academic who died in 1988. Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman dedicated their classic book Manufacturing Consent to his life.

In the foreword to the posthumously published anthology of Alex Carey's work, Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (University of Illinois Press, 1995), Chomsky notes that the dedication was a “bare and inadequate way to try to express our indebtedness to him for his uniquely important work on the 'ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy' that the highly class-conscious business community in the United States had sought to achieve, with the dedicated support of major segments of the intellectual culture.“ (pg.vi)